We were told that the risk was that we would lose our lives. We discovered that the risk is that we are losing our freedoms. The danger looms that we are at risk of losing our minds. Mind is the ground from which reality emerges and takes shape. Whoever owns my mind… owns me. Who owns your mind? ... Continue Reading >>
choosing
Charles Eisenstein: The Rehearsal is Over
"Many people trust the authorities and willingly comply with their rules. They face no dilemma, no initiatory moment, no self-defining world-creating choice point, not yet. But as the authorities’ narratives devolve into absurdity and their rules devolve into oppression, more and more of us face this choice: To live your truth out loud, or To live by ... Continue Reading >>
The House of my Mind
I spent many years travelling to Hawaii. Beyond the embrace of the physical space - the experience of being on a tiny dot of land in the middle of the majestic Pacific Ocean, 2500 miles from anywhere else, in any direction... all of which were breathtaking moments in time - I came to recognize that what kept calling me back to this ancient place was the ... Continue Reading >>
The Great Divide: Pandemic Fallout
Inside the pandemic that continues to shape our global, day-to-day reality through its roiling, seething cauldron of overwhelming and often conflicting ‘facts’, the battle rages on to determine who’s right and who’s not. Once firmly ensconced on the platform of being correct, we can then seek to define what behaviours we should/must exhibit (and insist upon ... Continue Reading >>
Poetry of Predicament: with Deb Ozarko and Dean Walker
Now retired, I rarely engage in much beyond the joys of simply living my truly blessed life! However, every now and then, I am invited to be part of something that is so compelling to me I feel The Call to simply engage and see where it goes. Recently, I was invited to be in conversation with Dean Walker on the Poetry of Predicament podcast. In the ... Continue Reading >>
Observations
Have you noticed how time is moving more quickly? Are you noticing that more things seem easily forgotten… quickly becoming irrelevant when in times past, they would have seemed essential to retain? Can you feel the degree to which what once mattered, no longer does? As a species, we’re changing. Our planet is changing. Our future is changing. And through ... Continue Reading >>
Deep Dive: Day 9 – Living with Amnesia
Today is Day 9 of 10. A sense of relief. Like the horse heading back to the barn at the end of a long day. A sense of peace, as this leg of the journey comes to an end; and a sense of the unearthed provocation that I know awaits. In my experience, it is impossible to ask questions without knowing intuitively that in doing so, new (and often, bigger) ... Continue Reading >>
Deep Dive: Day 7 – The Danger of Conversation
When this 10-day ‘Whispers from Within’ process first emerged, oh-so-long-ago, it did so not in pieces but as one, congruent whole. It only followed that once the 7 layers of discovery piece was written, there would naturally emerge a process to coax out its expression in a way that could be generalized and shared. From that came this 10-day writing ... Continue Reading >>
Truths, Perceptions and Choices
Everything is true somewhere, at some time, for someone - not because the content is ‘real’ or ‘accurate’ but because perception makes it so. Now prone to being awake and ready to start my day anytime after 4:00 am, I am also prone to thinking in sound bytes rather than complete sentences. Even within myself, I am noticing that I explore my own thoughts ... Continue Reading >>